“One of the first patients that I took care of as a student was a 16-year-old male wrestler, who had actually been struggling for years with an eating disorder before anyone recognized it as an eating disorder. By the time that we saw him, he was obsessed with his weight. He was checking his weight…
Details“Trends like “legging legs” are part of a long history of harmful body image content that has proliferated online since the early days of the internet. “The minute they ban one hashtag, another one will pop up,” said Amanda Raffoul, an instructor at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital who studies eating disorders. But…
Details“Black individuals tend to experience anorexia at younger ages than white individuals and may endure the disorder for longer periods of time before recovering; Black teenagers are 50% more likely to have symptoms associated with bulimia compared to white teenagers; Hispanic individuals are more likely to experience bulimia nervosa than non-Hispanic individuals. Despite the need…
Details“Fueled by escalating public concerns over young people’s mental health, lawmakers and regulators across the United States are mounting bipartisan efforts to rein in popular social media platforms by enacting a wave of laws, even as tech industry groups work to overturn them. A first-of-its-kind law passed last spring in Utah would require social media…
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